Reformed Church Rüti
The Reformed Church Rüti is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss municipality of Rüti in the canton of Zurich . The steeple and nave of the former monastery church of the Premonstratensian monastery in Rüti , which was closed in June 1525, have been preserved.
location
The church is located in the center of the municipality of Rüti on the site of the former monastery church, in an area called the Klosterhof or Amthof. To the northwest of the parish church is the rectory, to the west is the so-called Spitzer property, both former buildings of the former monastery and the Rütiamt . The office building to the west was rebuilt in the immediate vicinity of the church after the fire disaster of 1706. Two burned-out monastery buildings as well as the intact cloister were demolished and today's office building was built in its place, which served the bailiffs as an apartment and administrative space and today houses the Chronicle Rüti and the local museum, among other things.
history
Monastery church
In 1214 the canons of the Premonstratensian monastery in Rüti laid the foundation stone for a stone church; they first built the presbytery and two apses . The church was connected to the cloister with the former monastery complex . The construction of the monastery wall is said to go back to Abbot Berchtold (1226–1237). A hospital was occupied in the abbey from 1282 and a beneficiary house from 1351. The tower of today's church, together with the choir and the northern side chapel, forms the original part of the former monastery church built in the years 1214 to 1219 and 1250 to 1283, although it was rebuilt in the late Middle Ages. The construction work on the church must have been largely completed when Pope Innocent IV granted an indulgence on the occasion of the church consecration in 1250 . Another letter of indulgence, which was supposed to "contribute to the promotion and maintenance of the precious building of St. Mary's Church ", suggests that the construction of the church was completed in 1283. In the following 200 years, the side aisles in particular were filled with graves and monuments of the deceased from the lower and higher nobility from what is now northeastern Switzerland .
The church consecration was originally celebrated on the Sunday after Conversio sancti Pauli (January 25); Bishop Eberhard von Regensberg postponed it in 1254 to the Sunday after the feast day of Saints Philip and Jacob (May 1st) so that it no longer coincided with another holiday. In 1298 the parish festival was postponed to Marcellus Day (January 16), because "in the prime, instead of piously with pilgrims' staff, the young people turned up armed with spears, swords and shields ". Around 1439/42 the Toggenburg chapel was added to the monastery church. The abbots Markus Wiler and Felix Klauser had the church and the monastery buildings completely renewed (the year 1499 on the church portal). At that time the church was a Romanesque, three-aisled complex of stately proportions. The baroque reconstruction of the church after the fire of 1706 took over the late Romanesque choir, but its dimensions were modest.
reformed Church
With the decision of the Zurich Council on June 17, 1525, the Rüti monastery was abolished and the Rüti office was created; it administered his goods and income, and the monastery church became state property. A major fire on December 3, 1706 caused severe damage to the medieval building fabric. Due to traces of fire that were found, the burning roof beams seem to have fallen through a vault in the central nave or through the roofs of the side aisles into the interior of the church and damaged the choir stalls. The tower clock was destroyed, the bells melted in the heat of the fire and fell through the burned-out tower. The church was repaired by 1710, new bells and a new clock mechanism were purchased. In the new building, the dividing wall between the previous lay church and the monk's church was removed and from then on the services were held in the Gothic central nave and choir, as the population had doubled to 700 people.
In 1770, damaged parts of the church building appeared and the supporting pillars began to lower. After unsuccessful attempts at support, the city council of Zurich decided to tear down the three-aisled basilica and build a hall church in the late baroque - early classical style. The longitudinal walls of the side aisles were preserved; a new west wall was built and the nave was shortened by 12 meters at the same time. The outer walls of the side aisles have been raised to roof height, then the once supporting columns have been removed, as have all the old parts of the building outside this wall: the Toggenburg burial chapel and the side rooms with stairs to the gallery, where the abbots had their private chairs.
In 1800, two iron stoves were installed on each of the longitudinal walls, which were later replaced by floor heating. In 1872 the west gallery was built, on which a year later the first organ from the company Speich in Rapperswil was installed. Caspar Honegger, the owner of the machine factory of the same name, took over the costs of CHF 12,500. His heirs later transferred a further CHF 13,000 to the church administration to an organ fund . Primary school teacher Caspar Zuppinger was elected organist and paid CHF 300 per year. A Kalkant (organ treadmill) received CHF 80 per year, as the organ was not yet powered electrically.
In 1903 Rüti had applied to the canton of Zurich to build a new church, but instead received a new cemetery, the construction costs of which had been litigated with the canton since 1883, as well as the cost of renovating the church, including floor heating. Master builder Honegger donated a Gothic font made of white sandstone, which is now in the Johannes Chapel; the former came to the church of Tamins (GR). On the occasion of the renovation work, the choir paintings created in 1492 by the Winterthur artist Hans Haggenberg came to light again, which were restored in 1962/3 after they had peeled off in places. Smaller renovations were carried out in 1935/6, archaeological investigations in 1962 and 1971/2 as well as 1982. As early as 1930, the old cemetery near the church was removed to the original height from the monastery period and the surrounding wall, which was repeatedly increased over the centuries, was replaced by a surrounding wall made of stones Hüllisteinbruch replaced, set back from the street and with a staircase towards Dorfstrasse, although the church exit planned at this point was not built. The exterior of the church and tower were painted white, the west side a small canopy built on pillars and the central nave more comfortable benches. After a collection, a new organ was bought for CHF 65,000 and the old one was sold to Moutier in the Jura. The case of today's organ comes from the carpenter's workshop Fischbacher from Rüti and the carvings from the artist Berchtold in Mönchaltorf. In 1962, the newly appointed monument conservationist ordered the installation of six grave slabs from the longitudinal walls of the church nave in the choir: the Klingenberg table grave, dismantled during the renovation in 1770/1, was returned to its old location. In the choir, the seating, paneling and wooden floors and well-preserved parts were exhibited in the church museum.
A comprehensive restoration of the nave was carried out between 1980 and 1982, which was intended to preserve the original three-aisled structure, but also to make the rooms more accessible. The five-month archaeological excavations included the entire nave and the graves of the nobles, bailiffs and their wives and children in ship and choir. The foundations of the mighty columns and the wall of the rood screen were also examined , and Tschudi's chronicle was confirmed that Abbot Bilgeri von Wagenberg exhumed the fallen Habsburgs, who had been buried in mass graves there after the battle of Näfels, and in Rüti in a collective grave next to theirs had two leaders buried. The nave was lowered to the floor level of the original monastery church in order to improve the view of the liturgical center with the communion table and the Gothic choir arch. In addition, the church could be made wheelchair accessible in this way. Doors were added to the side chapels, and the preservation authorities approved a western extension, in which there was space for side rooms, a toilet facility and a common room. The windows received double glazing, floor and bench heating should provide more comfort. The outside area was also redesigned, south of the church garden (former cemetery), and the new forecourt between the main building, parish hall and church as a joint project between the church and the political community. The course of the church, which was twelve meters longer before 1770, and the formerly attached monastery building are marked in the pavement between the church and the main building.
architecture
Interior
Abbot Markus Wyler (1477–1502) had the first painting, the “Last Judgment”, done above the choir arch, donated by the Baron Bernhard Gradner and Veronika von Starckenberg († 1489). The top part in the screed area has been preserved. The work on the pillars of the choir arch was carried out again in 1492 by the Winterthur Hans Haggenberg. The Gothic windows and the wall tabernacle with the monastery coat of arms in the choir (1490) are also works of this abbot, who is buried in the immediate vicinity in the choir floor. The grave slab and wall tabernacle bear his coat of arms: angle hook and star. Israelite kings, prophets, clergymen and the parable “Of the ten virgins” adorn the choir arch, as well as eight women from the beginnings of Christianity, represented with their symbols (from left): Dorothea with the rose basket, Mary Magdalene with the ointment box, Appolonia with pliers and tooth, Ursula with the arrow, Katharina with wheel and sword, Barbora with tower, chalice and host, Margaret with cross and dragon and Helena in search of the cross of Christ. The choir clock is located on the south wall of the choir above the former altar boy. On the east wall, two coats of arms commemorate the founders and sponsors of the abbey: The Barons of Regensberg and Counts of Toggenburg . The keystone with the hand of the oath of God forms the end of the choir vault. The sandstone pulpit was donated in 1614 by Zurich mayor Heinrich Holzhalb and the Rütner bailiff Johannes Wolf. The Latin inscription on the left reads: « In the year of salvation 1614 in the name of the Holy Trinity by a pious and laudable foundation of the highly respected Mr. Johannes Heinrich Holzhalb, in his office the chief ore seal keeper and chief administrator of the famous city of Zurich. »On the right side:« Under Johannes Wolf, the venerable councilor and at the aforementioned time bailiff of the Rüti administration, on the occasion of the happy restoration of this old church in memory of those who were born afterwards. »
Choir area
Pulpit, in the background the choir
Detail view
Gallery and organ
Steeple
In 1971 the church tower was also subjected to a thorough restoration , the plaster applied in 1935/36 was removed and the original tufa structure was exposed. The restoration was managed by the building construction department of the canton of Zurich with the help of the monument preservation department, which in turn commissioned an architect to treat the tufa masonry. The bell chamber was probably heavily modified at the beginning of the 19th century: In the 18th century, the sound holes were designed as coupled pointed arch windows , as can be seen on the copper engraving by David Herrliberger , while on the sepia drawing by Ludwig Schulthess around 1840 two coupled within a large round arch area Arched windows and in the middle above a small round oculus can be seen. These fixtures were expanded again from 1875 and today's oversized sound holes were created. The tufa facades were designed using the Pietra Rasa technique and the tuff stones were restored. The roof was re-covered with old plain tiles, the weather vane including beams and ball as well as the gutters and waste pipes were renewed and the clock faces of the tower clock were overhauled. A square area constructed with pebbles in the south facade of the tower - formerly a plastered area for a painted sundial - was also renewed in Pietra Rasa. The neo-Gothic garments were left with the deliberately strongly emphasized "fringes" of the sandstone walls, as was the very thick cement base, which was probably applied in 1903.
Bells
The ringing should have included three bells during the first 500 years. The three bells cast by Glockengiesser Füssli were rung for the first time in November 1707:
| No. | Casting year | Caster | Weight (kg) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1707 | Füssli | My honest mouth and iron tongue, old and young gathered in the church | |
| 2 | 1707 | Füssli | I call the community to church duty and warn them when there is danger | |
| 3 | 1707 | Füssli | My sound calls to and fro, to work and to rest |
In 1883, the community president and church caretaker Pfister from the Ferrach district initiated the purchase of a four-part church bell in D flat major, weighing around four tons in total:
| No. | Casting year | Caster | Weight (kg) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1883 | Jakob Keller, Unterstrass | 2'100 | Glory to God on high, peace on earth, a pleasure to men |
| 2 | 1883 | Jakob Keller, Unterstrass | 1,050 | It is beautiful and lovely when brothers live together in harmony |
| 3 | 1883 | Jakob Keller, Unterstrass | 650 | a solid castle is our God |
| 4th | 1883 | Jakob Keller, Unterstrass | 250 | All that breathes praise the Lord |
| 5 | 1971 | 450 |
With a collection in the community and the sale of the old bells to the Catholic Church in Tann: Their church did not yet have a tower, so the former Rütner bells were rang in the open air in the old, newly erected bell cage. In 1920 the bells were electrified so that the bells could be set to swing individually or as a whole, and from 1948 a simple automatic ringing machine was installed. The smallest bell was tuned a little lower during the reconstruction of the church tower in 1971 and the ringing was supplemented by a fifth bell.
Altars of the former monastery church
A total of eleven altars were detectable in the monastery church until 1525: The high altar in the choir was consecrated in honor of Mary in 1219 . The two altars in honor of St. Augustine and St. Othmar in the north and in honor of the apostles Peter and John the Baptist in the south tower chapel (all open to the public) were consecrated on June 1, 1217. In 1219 Archbishop Eberhard von Regensberg , the brother of the founder, Lütolds IV. Von Regensberg , consecrated the church and the high altar to the Virgin Mary in visitationis causa . In 1298 there were other altars open to the public: the Catherine Altar in the south aisle (first mentioned in 1293), the Holy Cross Altar (lay altar) in front of or behind the steps of the gentleman's choir, the altar of the Apostle John , the Apostle James the Elder , Saint Martin and other saints south of the cross altar in the lay church; the regular altar in the north aisle, the Michael altar in the gallery and the Marien altar in the vestibule of the Toggenburg crypt south of the church portal (all mentioned for the first time in 1298). The altar of Saints Stephan, Laurence, Vincent, the Eleven Thousand Virgins , Maria Magdalena and all martyrs north of the cross altar in the lay church is mentioned in 1326 on the occasion of its consecration. The All Saints' Day altar in the vestibule, donated by the Toggenburgers, dates from 1396.
The Episcopal Collection of the St. Gallen Monastery also includes the main altar from the Rüti Monastery, which is attributed to Hans Leu the Elder , a Zurich carnation master, as a late work, although it does not have a carnation. The winged altar from 1503, a so-called triptych , is 89 cm wide and 87 cm high when closed with a frame, 162 cm wide when opened. During the Reformation, the altar came to the Wurmsbach Monastery , where it remained until 1798, after which it was brought to the episcopal residence in St. Gallen. The altar painting, which dates from the late Gothic period, shows Saint Augustine in the open position (from the left) and at his feet the Christ Child dressed in a shirt, in the middle the crucifixion scene and on the right Saint Norbert, the founder of the Premonstratensian order in bishop's robe. When closed, Christ is shown on the left as Ecce homo with his right hand pointing to the wound on the side and on the top right God the Father is shown as a half-length figure, on the right Mary is shown showing her son the breasts.
Burial place
As early as the late 13th century, the Toggenburgers began to bury their high-ranking family members in the Rütner Abbey, where they had their own grave chapel, although the Toggenburgers buried two family members in the town church of St. Michael in Uznach in 1383 and 1385 . A total of 14 Toggenburg counts and a large number of other nobles found their final resting place in the Rüti monastery. The original Toggenburg crypt was under the open porch of the church. In the 14th century, Rüti was increasingly preferred as the final resting place by other noble families, probably because it promised regular service to the dead (aristocratic memoria ). In addition to the aristocrats, ministerials like Meier von Dürnten, von Schalchen, von Rambach, Giel von Liebenberg or knight Ital Löw von Schaffhausen were buried in Rüti.
On the north wall of the nave are the grave slabs of (from the left)
- Margaretha Villiger-Schulthess, probably the wife of a Rapperswil mayor,
- Heinrich von Randegg, bailiff from Hegau, died near Näfels,
- the table grave of the knight Johannes von Klingenberg on Hohentwiel, who also fell near Näfels. The table top shows the full coat of arms of the Klingenberg family with heraldic decoration and the ancestral coat of arms in the corners, on the base plate the shields of the parents Klingenberg and Vaihingen.
On the southern wall of the church you can see (from the left):
- Coat of arms paintings of the Lords of Hinwil and the decorated window to the former Katharinen altar,
- the former table tops of the knight Hermann von Hinwil († 1355) and that of
- Heinrich von Wagenberg († 1386), father of the Rütner abbot Bilgeri von Wagenberg.
In the basement of the western extension from 1982 you can find the remains of the stairs that led to the former Toggenburg crypt, which were uncovered during the excavations in 1978. There are two grave slabs here, which remember the 14 Counts of Toggenburg who found their final resting place here: Diethelm, a member of the Order of St. John († around 1260) and Friedrich V († 1369), married to Kunigunde von Vaz .
Heinrich von Randegg was, together with knight Johann von Klingenberg, brother of Abbot Bilgeri, one of the leaders of the Austrian troops at the battle of Näfels , where he died on April 9, 1388. According to the report of the Rapperswil chronicler J. H. Tschudi, Abbot Bilgeri von Wagenberg had asked the Glarus people after the battle of Näfels for permission to bury the Austrian fallen in their own cemetery and to build a memorial church. When the Glarus refused to do so, he asked to be allowed to bury the corpses appropriately. On 30 November 1389, some 20 months after the battle, the abbot went with his entourage to the battlefield, put a hands-on and had - according to J. H. Tschudi a lot - the remains of at least 20 killed by Ruti bring and bury there. On the occasion of the restoration of the choir and archaeological and structural analysis investigations as well as excavations , the Monument Preservation of the Canton of Zurich made some interesting findings in 1962: The first box altar system with a larger cavity was probably built around or shortly after 1300 under Abbot John I of Rheinfelden (1286 –1300). Presumably by Abbot Bilgeri von Wagenberg (1379-1394) the altar could have been reduced in favor of a larger forecourt so that the tombs for the knights who fell in the Battle of Näfels in 1388 could be buried in the nave of the monastery church. In the choir, the foundation and the cavity of a box altar with the skeleton of the bailiff Hans Ülinger († August 13, 1612) were exposed. His grave was sunk into the natural rock in the box altar foundation. The investigations also included the graves of the officials Oswald Keller († April 4, 1600) and Hans Ulrich Körner († 1655). The following were preserved and relocated: The grave slab of the knight Heinrich von Wagenberg, the father of Abbot Bilgeri von Wagenberg who died in 1380, the footplates from the table grave, probably of Count Diethelm VII and Count Friedrich V of Toggenburg († 1364) and the top plate of the table grave of the knight Hermann von Hünwil († 1355). Furthermore, the grave slab of Margaretha Villinger († 1450) and the fragment of a grave slab of a noblewoman of unknown name who presumably died in 1312. The investigations of the grave slab of the knight Heinrich von Randegg, who, together with knight Johann von Klingenberg, brother of Abbot Bilgeri, were one of the leaders of the Austrian troops at the battle of Näfels, where he died on April 9, 1388, turned out to be historically interesting has fallen: " Hans von Sunthusen or Sunthuser appears on the loss lists as a servant who fell with his master, together with two other servants: Hans Faiss and Hans Vetter. The name Hans or Heinrich Schoch is missing there. But it must also have been a servant with him, so that with Johann von Klingenberg four servants went into battle and perished there. But the remains or bone fragments of about 20 people were found ». During the restoration of the paintings on the wall tabernacle in 1963, the coats of arms of the Counts of Toggenburg and Barons of Landenberg were preserved (a third coat of arms was discovered). The burial sites of the penultimate Rütner abbot, who was poured with white lime according to the noble custom, and that of Petermann von Raron († 1479), the last of the Valais barons of Raron and heir to part of the Toggenburg estates, do not seem to be mentioned in the excavation report .
Toggenburg Chapel
Count Friedrich VII of Toggenburg († 1436) was buried in 1442 in the Toggenburg chapel, which was built around 1437/39 but is no longer preserved today, on the northwest corner of the monastery church. On September 5, 1439, Countess Elisabeth von Matsch , Frederick's widow, founded a chaplain for the purpose of a daily mass in the Premonstratensian Abbey for his and her own salvation and bequeathed the abbey 30,000 Rhenish guilders and a valuable treasure with ornaments . After her death, the foundation provided that the Rütner abbot and his convent held the daily mass and the usual seasons .
In the summer of 1962, the municipality of Rüti had the area between the office building, the church and the former "Schütte" house paved. Before the construction work began, the cantonal preservation authorities examined the building site for possible medieval building remains. The investigations of the excavation area, which was limited to almost 500 m 2 , lasted from May 21 to June 5, 1962 and concentrated on a one meter wide wall foundation running from the southwest corner in a southerly direction to the church forecourt, which was directly on the Nagelfluhfels , averaging 1.50 up to 1.80 meters below the current soil surface. The area examined is likely to have been identical to the Toggenburg Chapel built by Elisabeth von Matsch in 1437/39 , the Peter and Paul Altar of which was said to have been inaugurated on January 16, 1442. According to Sigrist and local historian Emil Wüst, the chapel is said to have been connected to the north-west corner of the large three-part western building of the former monastery church, which was demolished in 1770. An attempt at reconstruction based on a plan from the time before 1770 in the Zurich State Archives seems to confirm this assumption. The Swiss National Museum dated a 40 to 80 centimeter thick layer of rubble as well as tile and ceramic fragments throughout the 15th to 18th centuries. The remains of the wall between the south-west corner of the office building and the former north-west corner of the former vestibule wing later served as the foundations for the surrounding wall and courtyard gate of the Rüti office that was visible in the engraving by David Herrliberger . These seem to have been removed after 1833, as they can no longer be seen on the Sepia by Ludwig Schulthess around 1840.
Parish
Medieval Rüti concentrated on the hamlet of Ferrach, acquired by the Rüti monastery in 1238, and the monastic fiefs of Rütiwald, Hüllistein, Langacher, Moos, Weier and Eichen. The monastery church also attracted churchgoers from today's Tann and Fägswil, both belonging to the parish of Rüti. The former monastery church has belonged to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich since the monastery was secularized in June 1525 . Reformer Ulrich Zwingli planned to set up a primary school teacher training facility in the abolished Rüti monastery and was the first pastor to occupy Wolfgang Kröwl. Born in the canton of Zug, Kröwl was trained in Paris ( Magister Parisiensis ) and became a teacher at the Fraumünster School in Zurich. In the abolished Rüti monastery, the position of the people priest and the teacher was combined into one office. In 1530, Kröwl was awarded a modest 30 guilders annual wages, including free board and lodging, for both offices, even according to the circumstances at the time. Wolfgang Kröwl and three of the former Rütner conventuals went with Zwingli to the battle of Kappel , where they were killed. Due to a lack of funds and support, only one elementary school was founded in Rüti, but at least the first public school in the Zurich countryside, which was run for 312 years, first by the respective pastors, then by poorly paid and insufficiently trained schoolmasters in the old rectory near the church has been. In 1601, Gabriel Schmidt was the first to receive the dual office of Sigrist / Schoolmaster, thus establishing an office tradition that lasted for almost two hundred years. With the ordination of pastor Johann Jakob Reutlinger, the situation improved significantly: Reutlinger was a supporter of Pestalozzi's teaching method, and with the beginning of the Helvetic he came to Rüti in 1798 as pastor and school inspector. In the cramped classroom in the basement of the rectory, he trained a total of thirty teachers, who in turn had to pass on the knowledge they had received in Rüti to all teachers living in their respective neighborhood.
Until 1707, the services took place in the western, rear part of the church, which was separated from the front part by the rood screen. In the new building, the dividing wall between the previous lay church and the monk's church was removed and from then on the services were held in the central nave and choir: the population had doubled to 700 people, since Fägswil and the Oberhaltberg, Laufenbach and Niggital farms had also belonged to the Rüti parish since 1710 . During the church renovation in 1980/3, the Rütner Reformed received hospitality rights in the Roman Catholic Church in Tann, as in 1966 in the opposite way when the Catholic Church was built.
See also
literature
- Peter Niederhäuser and Raphael Sennhauser: Aristocratic burials and aristocratic memorials in the Rüti monastery . Journal article from Art + Architecture in Switzerland, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2003.
- Bernard Andenmatten and Brigitte Degler-Spengler (Red.): The Premonstratensians in Switzerland . In: Helvetia Sacra IV / 3, Basel 2002. ISBN 978-3-7965-1218-6
- Martin Illi: The Rüti monastery - a burial place of the east Swiss nobility . In: Antiquarian Society Pfäffikon (Hrsg.): An idea of the ancestors . Archaeological journey of discovery to the Zürcher Oberland, pp. 174–177, Wetzikon 1993.
- Emil Wüst: Art in the Reformed Church Rüti ZH . Edited by Church Care Rüti, 1989.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Bernard Andenmatten and Brigitte Degler-Spengler (Red.): The Premonstratensians in Switzerland . In: Helvetia Sacra IV / 3, Basel 2002. ISBN 978-3-7965-1218-6
- ↑ With great thanks to Father Dr. Ludger Horstkötter, Hamborn Premonstratensian Abbey .
- ^ A b c d e f g Emil Wüst: Art in the Reformed Church Rüti ZH . Edited by Church Care Rüti, 1989.
- ↑ With a big thank you to the Evangelical Reformed Parish of Rüti, Mrs. Marianna Serena and Mr. Roman Disch.
- ↑ Kdm. Canton of Zurich, Volume II, Basel 1943, pp. 209 and 213 ff.
- ↑ a b c Zurich monument preservation: 3rd report 1962/3, p. 76 ff.
- ↑ a b c d e f Emil Wüst: The Rütner Church with its structural changes and its respective Sigrists and organists since the Reformation. Reformed Church Rüti 1984.
- ^ Zurich monument preservation: 7th report 1970–1974, 2nd part, Zurich 1978
- ↑ Taken from the information boards on the occasion of the exhibition "Rütner Klosterschatz: After 484 years of 'exile' - for the first time 'home leave'", with a big thank you to Ms. Esther Müller, Community Chronik Rüti.
- ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archive: Summarium Office S, Volume 1, Page 10 , accessed on December 27, 2009
- ↑ Zürcher Denkmalpflege, 3rd report 1962/3, p. 98 ff.
- ^ A b c Emil Wüst: The pastors of Rüti since the Reformation. A loose sequence from the chronicle. Reformed Church Rüti 1983.
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '33.4 " N , 8 ° 50' 57.3" E ; CH1903: 706763 / 235221